It's a discovery 112 years in the making. A group of explorers found a shipwreck in Lake Michigan near Milwaukee.
Bound for Midland, Ontario from South Chicago, the L-R Doty Steamship disappeared after facing 70 mile-per-hour winds and 30 foot waves.
The wreckage is submerged in 300 feet of water, 20 miles off the Oak Creek shore.
Divers took video and photos of the ship which appears to be upright and intact. It even has its cargo of corn.
Historians say the cold, fresh water and extreme depth preserved the ship, which sunk in 1898.
To: Constitution Day
To: JoeProBono
Lake Superior, it's said, never gives up her dead.
Lake Michigan will give up the dead, but she takes her own sweet time.
To: JoeProBono
It would be intersting if any little bit of corn was sealed away and not wet, whether it could be germinated. It would be interesting to see the nature of the seed ear it produced, it’s height as a plant and it’s disease resistance, etc.
8 posted on
06/24/2010 1:14:40 PM PDT by
IrishCatholic
(No local Communist or Socialist Party Chapter? Join the Democrats, it's the same thing!)
To: JoeProBono
did they find Jimmy Hoffa?
10 posted on
06/24/2010 1:16:49 PM PDT by
Ancient Drive
(DRINK COFFEE! - Do Stupid Things Faster with More Energy!)
To: JoeProBono
13 posted on
06/24/2010 1:29:02 PM PDT by
UCANSEE2
(The Last Boy Scout)
To: JoeProBono
The Doty at the Soo Locks 1896 - Andrew Young photo courtesy of the Historical Collections of the Great Lakes
video
15 posted on
06/24/2010 1:32:42 PM PDT by
TruthHound
("He who does not punish evil commands it to be done." --Leonardo da Vinci)
To: JoeProBono
36 posted on
06/25/2010 7:04:43 PM PDT by
SunkenCiv
("Fools learn from experience. I prefer to learn from the experience of others." -- Otto von Bismarck)
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